Charles Douglas

• Name	Charles Douglas
  Gender	Male
  Imprisonment	1684	Dumfries, Dumfries-shire, Scotland   [1]
  	On list of prisoners transferred to Edinburgh
  Role	1685	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Transported prisoner
  Religion	1685	Scotland
  	Presbyterian - Covenanter
  Imprisonment	24 May 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland   [2]
  	Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 18 August
  Imprisonment	Abt Jul 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland   [3]
  	One of 15 Covenanter prisoners who escaped and were recaptured and subjected to torture
  Departure	5 Sep 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis. Prisoner, not banished
  Arrival	7 Dec 1685	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA   [4]
  Name	Cahrles Dowglas
  Name	Charles Dougal
  Origin	Dumfries-shire, Scotland
  Person ID	I44603	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Imprisonment - On list of prisoners transferred to Edinburgh - 1684 - Dumfries, Dumfries-shire, Scotland Religion - Presbyterian - Covenanter - 1685 - Scotland Imprisonment - Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 18 August - 24 May 1685 - Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland Imprisonment - One of 15 Covenanter prisoners who escaped and were recaptured and subjected to torture - Abt Jul 1685 - Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland Departure - Aboard the Henry and Francis. Prisoner, not banished - 5 Sep 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Arrival - 7 Dec 1685 - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Origin - - Dumfries-shire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, X, p377. [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p10. [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p19. [S3601] Glasgow, W. Melancthon, History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America, pp 230-231. https://archive.org/details/historyofreforme00glas